I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your whole life without really knowing that something's wrong. I had high blood pressure, and that was the first sign.
I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.
There is a history of mental breakdowns in my family. It will never happen to me but it has happened to others in the family.
My dad's side of the family ... they're a real bizarre bunch, going back to the original colonies. That side's got a real tough strain of alcoholism. It goes back generations and generations, so that you can't remember when there was a sober grandfather.
I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family.
I have never had feeling in my toes. My uncle, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, once told me in confidence he had the same syndrome, leading me to believe it is genetic.
Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
I don't think my insomnia is fixable: I think it's in my DNA.
